I’m giving you my mom’s Christmas Stuffed Mushrooms because these deserve to escape the confines of the Taggart family cookbook. They’re filled with sausage, cream cheese and Swiss cheese and have been part of our Christmas Feast for as long as I can remember.
Nut in the Pudding is one of our favorite Taggart Christmas traditions, although there is technically no pudding involved, so let’s get that cleared up immediately. Every year my dad makes this poppy seed Bundt cake, slices it up, and secretly hides an almond underneath one of the pieces. Then everyone chooses a slice. Whoever…
Throughout my children’s childhood, at some point, I stopped keeping our children’s books in one big pile and started sorting them by season. It wasn’t really a system. I was just tired of digging past a stack of bunnies to find the one about the ghosts. But the sorting did something I didn’t expect, it…
I almost left the church ten years ago. I felt hoodwinked. Tricked. Like everything I had been taught was either a lie or, at best, only part of the story. Anyone who has been through a faith crisis knows it is not pretty. Losing a foundation you were certain about is terrifying. In 2015 I…
My dad served his mission in England and came home loving Brussels sprouts, which was not a thing anybody in Utah was doing in the seventies. My mom started making them sometime in the eighties, and they were terrible. Boiled. Gray. Just that smell that really never goes away. We ate them because that was…
Have you ever heard of the story of the ants and the grasshopper? The ants spend all year preparing and storing food in their home while the grasshoppers stand by and relax and laugh at them… well winter comes and the grasshoppers freeze and the ants feast. It’s a pretty sad story, but I haven’t…
I learned all the ways to cook with eggplant while serving a mission in Argentina. This recipe is truly a masterpiece if I do say so myself. Do not let the word vegetarian scare you off. This lasagna is hearty, loaded with vegetables and cheese, and packed with flavor. It makes a huge pan, so…
Makes 7 servings. About 1 hour. I don’t throw the word viral around lightly, but I don’t think I’ve ever been asked for a recipe more than this one. It’s crunchy, fresh, ridiculously good, and one of the easiest things to make on Sunday and eat all week. The grapes are non-negotiable. The homemade mayo…
THE UNSELECTED JOURNALS OF EMMA M. LION BY BETH BROWER To no surprise, I am reading The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion for the second time and they are even better the second time around. Beth Brower knows the key to my heart. Part of me gets frustrated because I want the story to…
I started gardening because I wanted to grow food. That was pretty much it. I liked the idea of becoming more self-sufficient, knowing where some of our food came from and being a little less dependent on the grocery store. I thought I was building garden beds to grow tomatoes and cucumbers and zucchini. I…
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